Faculty Name
Anne Bradford Warner, Ph.D.
Title
Professor Emerita
Department
English
Education
Ph.D., Emory University
M.A., Hollins College
B.A., Hollins College
Biography
Dr. Anne Bradford Warner began teaching in the English Department at Spelman College in 1982. In addition to being an associate professor English, she served as the director of the College's Comprehensive Writing Program from 2004 until her retirement in 2015 when she was awarded the distinction of professor emerita for her distinguished contributions to academia.Awards and Research Seminars
Spelman Presidential Award for Distinguished Service, 2006
NYU Faculty Resource Network Summer Seminar in "Global Mythologies," June 6-
10, 2005. This seminar supplemented a course I developed earlier, The Epic and Its Origins.
NYU Faculty Resource Network Summer Seminar in "Literature of the Americas,"
June 8-12, 2003. This seminar supplied a new perspective and new materials
for the survey, U. S. Literature before 1865.
Association of the Colleges of the South, Faculty Renewal Grant, 2010-2011, $7,000,
PI, with Lisa Niles and Aditi Pai. Offered 5 luncheon sessions for faculty
with nationally known academic editors and foundation proposal grantors.
Senior Faculty Sabbatical Grant, Fall, 2006
Small Faculty Development Grant, Fall, 2006, for travel to NYU Bobst Library and
North Carolina Archives, Norcom papers.
Bush-Hewlett Faculty Development Grant – $300,000-- January, 2003-December,
2007
Publications
Harriet Jacobs at Home in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The Southern
Quarterly. 45.3 (Spring 2008): 30-47.
"What You See Is (Not) What You Get: Collaborative Composing in Visual Space," written collaboratively with Margaret Price, Across the Disciplines. (December 2005). http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/visual/price_warner.cfm
“Santa Claus Ain't a Real Man': Gender and Incidents.” In Haunted Bodies: The
South and Gender, Anne G. Jones and Susan Donaldson, Eds., University of
Virginia Press, 1998. 185-200.
"Carnival Laughter: Incidents and Resistance." In Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays, Deborah Garfield and Rafia Zafar, eds., Cambridge University Press, 1995. 216-232.
"Harriet Jacobs's Modest Proposals: Revising Southern Hospitality." The Southern Quarterly. 30.2-3 (Winter-Spring 1992): 22-29.